News Archive

Dear all, As we move into May, it is good to know that our people continue to be well and safe with our four colleagues in the US who became poorly progressing well.  This gives us confidence that the protocols put in place and decisions made have served us well. As we mentioned in the […]

Dear all, At this week’s Town hall, Dennis highlighted business continuity – to serve our customers, as one of our top priorities, with the protection of our people coming first and foremost and cash protection, second.  It is therefore great to know that Le Mans has had a second great week in its phased return […]

On Tuesday 28th April we had the third Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO and Gail Pasquier, our CCO. The Town Hall Meeting was hosted on Microsoft Teams – Live event, and we had almost 200 people joining us. Thank you all for attending! We […]

Dear all, We hope that everyone had a peaceful Easter Weekend – one that we won’t forget but hopefully you found time to rest and recharge your energy. We are all facing challenges during this crazy time whether we are working in the workplace or from home or indeed furloughed, so it’s important that we […]

Hello everybody, Despite the crisis that we are still in the middle of, I do hope you all had at least some joyful and relaxing time during the Easter break. Not knowing how long the crisis will be and what potential consequences it might have for the business creates, of course, anxiety and more questions […]

On Wednesday 8th April we had the second Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. This time the Town Hall Meeting was hosted on Microsoft Teams – Live event, and we had more than 230 people joining us. Thank you all for attending! If you couldn’t attend the live event you can watch the Town […]

In March we communicated plans to realise synergies across the Northern European commercial activities by creating a single commercial business unit from the four existing commercial business units (covering employees in seven countries). This notice is to update you on the progress of those plans. Consultations completed We have now completed the consultations with all […]

  On Wednesday 25th March we had a Town Hall Meeting exclusively related to COVID-19. This time the Town Hall Meeting was hosted on Microsoft Teams, and we had over 210 people joining us. It was the first time that we hosted a live stream with so many people attending, and we hope to see […]

Dear all, With the announcement made by the UK government last night to enforce restrictions on non-critical movement, it has become clear that our ability to continue operations in the UK is no longer possible. Clearly this decision aligns the UK with the actions already taken by France, Spain and Italy – similar to the […]

Dear all, Following the late 2019 announcements surrounding restructuring of the North American market to create greater local ownership, I am pleased to announce several changes to our internal teams and structure, effective immediately. Amanda Hermann has been promoted to Senior Manager, Account Management & Receivables and will report directly to me. In her expanded […]

On Tuesday 11th February we had the first Town Hall Meeting of the year, live from the Head Office. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO, Jonathan Spight, our Chief Financial Officer and Richard Llewellyn, our Sustainability Officer. This Town Hall saw everybody from Head Office attending, as well as over 85 people […]

The project sponsors and the project team are very pleased to announce that Vanilla Project has gone live as planned and without any major issues at this point. This is a major achievement and could not have happened without the drive and dedication in planning, testing and delivery of the project team and the wider […]

Dear all, Following a comprehensive review of our ambitions and plans for the North American market in the light of our Long-Range Plan we will be making the following changes to the Commercial Team, effective January 1st, 2020. As we further hone our channel driven structure, we will amalgamate the Fine Art Multiples and Fine […]

Last June 2019, we explained on Colart News what was the Vanilla Project (here link). As a reminder, Project Vanilla eliminates CIHL from the flow of products and in so doing creates a direct financial and operational flow between the manufacturing entities (e.g. Colart Le Mans) and the distribution/sales entities (e.g. Colart Italy). As such […]

By Jakub Kopek On the last weekend of September, Colart Poland partnered with one of our retailers and Wacom Poland for the 30th International Festival of Comics in Lodz, the biggest comics event in Poland and Central-Eastern Europe, which is visited by over 20 000 comic enthusiasts ever year. What we found particularly interesting was […]

On Wednesday 10th July, we had a Town Hall Meeting live from Head Office. On the panel were Dennis van Schie, our CEO, and the rest of the GLT. Watch the recording of the Town Hall Meeting: https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/ucWZZOW6-gHKvwpyy.mp4 What was discussed? Cliquez ici pour lire le compte-rendu en français Dennis started the meeting by mentioning […]